Playing random movies on load

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Hello all. I have read through a lot of the forum, though not all, so I am sorry if this is a repeat question, but what I would like to do is load random movies into a SWF on load. So when my swf loads, I would like 1 of 19 movies to reandomly begin playing within a specific area. Anyw help with this would be greatly appreciated. I have just gotten Flash 8, and there are a lot of new techniques that I have not used before. Thanks so much for your time!

Peter

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Make an array and use the names of the movies inside that array and then call the array to load whenever you want it to load the movies and use a random function to load them randomly…

EX:
[COLOR=“Blue”]myArray = [“movie1.swf”, “movie2.swf”, “movie3.swf”];
_root.currMovie = myArray[random(myArray.length)];
container.loadMovie(_root.currMovie);[/COLOR]

3

Thanks so much man! I will try that out and see how it goes!

4

I just looked up the same thing myself. Create a movie clip that is 300x300 adn label it “movieTarget”. Then put this code in the timeline. I can’t take credit for this code though. Its a Kirupa original! ;0

filename = [“circular.swf”, “vibration.swf”, “random_movement.swf”];
path = “http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/animation/”;
i = filename.length;
k = Math.floor(Math.random()*i);
loadMovie(path+filename[k], movieTarget);

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You guys are so cool! Thanks again!

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Hey BoonDock, on this bit, do you put this code within the MC that you are loading the movie? So for instance, I want to target a certain MC to launch the movies in, so would I place this in that MC? I just noticed that you used _root and I was wondering if that was something that I could change to the instance name of the MC or if I had to place it into the MC itself…

Thanks man -

7

you dont really have to create an array, just put all the swfs in a folder and use this tutorial:
http://blog.soromenho.net/?p=18
(includes a preloader for external swfs)

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Hey Liquify, that is awesome. One thing that I am running into is that my swf’s are loading flv files externally, so I am randomly loading a swf that is loading another file. Could this be causing a problem with the whole process? Should I embed the video directly into the SWF? Thanks so much to everyone for helping out. You guys are awesome!

Peter